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2016/01/03 18:28:26 (permalink)

What's a good gig app for windows or surface pro

i have an iPad Air for a couple years and just can not get comfortable with any iapps. They are all like toys and its clumsy to make a simple PDFs songbook and transfer songs in and out. Apple forces you to transfer via iTunes or Dropbox. And at best is a 3 step process. And lose track of where files are With a pc, you save a file to a PDFs and its one and done, but I can not find an app that will create a PDFs songbook. Like the most basic function of onsong . Any suggestions. In need to ditch this iPad toy.
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    Re: What's a good gig app for windows or surface pro 2016/01/04 09:50:40 (permalink)
    Depends what you mean by "songbook" and what you want to do with it....

    The best tool for managing/creating PDFs is Acrobat Pro, though you need to create the text, graphics etc. in another program. Acrobat reader is available as an iOS app, though unfortunately it has the "modern" Acrobat interface which I at least find a step backards from earlier versions.

    Apple's Pages app might do the job for you. Not a pdf creator, it's Apple's equivalent of Word, is available for iOS and free.

    I use an app called "tunebook" quite a lot, its based on the abc notation system, but it's likely my requirements are somewhat different to yours.

    Searching for "ios songbook app" throws up quite a lot of hits. You might find this site useful - http://www.stevemacdonald.org/tablet/apps.html

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    Re: What's a good gig app for windows or surface pro 2016/01/04 12:43:36 (permalink)
    I've been using an ipad for 2 years and I use it for chordsheets/sheetmusic as I play every week.
     
    I use forscore.  http://forscore.co/
    It's cheap (don't remember how much I paid for it, but it wasn't much).
     
    the process to get pdf sheet music into forscore does include dropbox, but dropbox is integrated into the app.  I just tap on the SERVICES option in forscore and it opens dropbox and I choose which file I want to import and it's done.  I did, of course have to set up forscore with my dropbox account, but that was one time and pretty painless.

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    Re: What's a good gig app for windows or surface pro 2016/01/04 14:00:54 (permalink)
     
    I wrote my own...It basically lets you combine PDF files so that you only have to open 1 of them.  Then I use a USB Page Flipper...They have Bluetooth ones now:
     http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Page+Turner
     
    I have the one in the middle here:
    http://bilipro.com/documents/products.html
     
    If there is any interest, I would be willing to let you guys in on the fun!
    post edited by patm300e - 2016/01/04 14:17:00

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    Re: What's a good gig app for windows or surface pro 2016/01/04 20:22:51 (permalink)
    I guess I did not explain myself good. I am trying to get away from ipad. I know all the hard core apple users don't get it, but when you've been a life time PC user, an apple is a toy with toy apps. And as far as flaking out less... my ipad "onsong" app flakes out plenty which caused me to revert to my paper backup music for 1 gig and 1 praise and worship session. Being as polite as possible,,, I just don't like apple/ipads sooo much that I'm will to toss this ipad air in a garbage can and go back to paper,  "UNLESS" there is a pc version of an "onsong" type of app for a windows surface pro. I just need to organize my pdfs/word docs in a master library and then create set lists and be able to swipe the screen to turn pages or use a peddle. I don't need chord charts and auto key changes. So any suggestions? 
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    Re: What's a good gig app for windows or surface pro 2016/01/04 21:42:03 (permalink)
    I get it but, unfortunately, I don't know of anything I could suggest to help you... 
     
    That said... 

     
    Of course, some Apple products have their uses (in fact your iPad now supports windows!): 
     
     

     
    Time for all of you to head over to Beyond My DAW!
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    Re: What's a good gig app for windows or surface pro 2016/01/04 22:56:15 (permalink)
    Thanks Reece. I down loaded Forscore and started using it tonight. I have been meaning to start moving away from the 3 ring binder and start using my Apple iPad for live use during worship band.
     
    I also discovered that IKM has a free app called iKlip Stage that seems to work well, for those wanting to go in the App direction.  
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    Re: What's a good gig app for windows or surface pro 2016/01/06 09:13:39 (permalink)
    The application I wrote is for the PC.  That is why I wrote it, there was no equivalent for ForScore.  I use it on my Surface Pro 2.  It combines all the individual PDFs into a single PDF.  Then I just load that single PDF and use the foot pedal page turner.
     
    I can edit with stylus (in the Windows 10 PDF Reader).
     

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    Re: What's a good gig app for windows or surface pro 2016/01/06 19:44:31 (permalink)
    SetList Helper for Android looks like it might fit your requirements.
     
    Website: http://www.setlisthelper.com/
    Android app: https://play.google.com/s...details?id=com.app.slh

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    Re: What's a good gig app for windows or surface pro 2016/01/08 09:06:00 (permalink)
    Thanks all, It's disappointing that there is no windows app.
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